On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Michael Snoyman <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Magnus Therning <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 13:14, John Lato <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> From: Michael Snoyman <[email protected]> > >>> > >>> Also, now 10 random profiles will be displayed on the homepage. Only > >>> "verified users" will be displayed here. I'm also considering adding a > >>> new status as well: real picture, so that only people with real images > >>> (not cartoons, not identicons) can show up on the homepage. I think > >>> this might give a more professional feel. Thoughts? > >> > >> I agree that it would be nice to use only real pictures, however I > wouldn't > >> want to leave out those who choose not to use any image at all. > >> What about a site policy that user images must be real pictures (if they > >> exist), and violations can be flagged/blocked? Although, I don't know > how > >> this would interact with using OpenID, which appears to be most of the > users > >> currently displaying an identicon. > > > > I think it would be wrong to have haskellers.com impose restrictions > > on what image I put on gravatar. My image on gravatar pops up in > > numerous other sites (I believe stackoverflow, ohloh, flickr, etc) and > > I'm not necessarily happy with putting my photo everywhere, even > > though I'd be fine with putting it on haskellers.com. > > > > So, instead I'd like to see the use of gravatar become optional. Then > > if haskellers.org could require a photo, and I could simply choose not > > to get my cartoon image from gravatar. > > > > An obvious extension would be to allow me to get the image from other > > sources in the future, maybe an option to grab a picture out of an > > album on Facebook, or Flickr? > > So firstly, just to clarify, I was never recommending we make real > photos a requirement to have an account on Haskellers. I was simply > talking about the 10 random profiles that get shown on the homepage: I > think it gives a more professional feel to the site if we see 10 "real > people" and not Bart Simpson. That was my question. > I generally agree on this point, however having a profile on the homepage (even if it is randomly selected) provides a great deal of publicity and legitimacy to that profile (as much as haskellers.com can provide!). I think this should be equally available to users who for whatever reason do not wish to share a photo image. > > Now, the idea of using something besides gravatar is a fair point. I > know personally I *like* it when sites use gravatar, as it's one less > site I have to upload my image to. Otherwise, I need to search around > for my preferred profile image, crop it to whatever that site wants, > hope they'll scale it nicely, etc. From the site maintainer > standpoint, gravatar also means there's less moving parts on > Haskellers, and it decreases our bandwidth significantly, which is > definitely something to consider. > > I'll definitely put some thought into providing an alternative to > gravatar. In the meanwhile, an option you have is to add a second > gravatar email address. This works especially well with Gmail > accounts, where you can just use a + sign (eg, > [email protected] <michael%[email protected]>). I'm > not saying this is ideal, but if > you want to have your real photo up, it will work today. That seems to be reasonable. Although this is only an issue if there's some sort of real-image restriction to the functionality of haskellers.com. I don't think the implementation should be difficult once the policy is decided. John
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